[NBLUG/talk] Suggestions for newbie Linux Person

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Mon Sep 26 09:50:18 PDT 2005


On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:53:30PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> If the video works under Knoppix but not under Fedora or Ubuntu, then I'm not
> sure what you'd want to do.  There was a time when you could simply copy the 
> XFree86 configuration from Knoppix into another Linux installation, but since
> neither Fedora nor Ubuntu uses XFree86 anymore, this trick won't work unless 
> the current version of Knoppix uses Xorg (the X11 system that Fedora and 
> Ubuntu now use).  I can't tell from the Knoppix website if this is the case 
> or not.

FWIW, from what I've seen, the xorg.conf looks mighty similar to XF86Config-4.
X.org was a fork of XFree86, so that's really not too surprising.

-bill!



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